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Muti conducts 'Requiem' for WWI 100th anniversary

The Associated Press

Updated:
07/06/2014 04:06:32 PM EDT

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Maestro Riccardo Muti arrives for the rehearsal for Verdi's "Requiem" in Redipuglia, Italy, Sunday, July 6, 2014. Maestro Riccardo Muti will mark the 100th anniversary this year of World War I's outbreak by leading a youth orchestra in Redipuglia, site of a monument to World War I dead in northeastern Italy, in a performance of Verdi's "Requiem." " Italy's Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra will perform with young musicians from other countries in what Muti called an "expression of musical harmony" and peace . (AP Photo/Paolo Giovannini)

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